Robots Vs. Monsters

Rating: 6/10 (28 May 2014)

Guillermo del Toro directed this big-budget CGI Sci-Fi tale that starts off explaining how the world became under attack by giant monsters called Kaiju, who invade the Earth from a breach from beneath the sea, in a plan to invade the Earth and destroy the humans, who retaliate by building equally gigantic robots called Jaegers piloted by two people linked as one mind to carry the psychic load. Nearly defeated by years of escalating assaults, the humans launch one last, desperate assault on the breach itself, to end this war once and for all.
Entertaining film with lots of action and impressive F/X, and clever touches and nods to other films, is still pretty far-fetched stuff, but handled with reasonable intelligence and care. Not particularly original in any way, but still fun to watch, with Idris Elba and Ron Perlman in particular standing out with effective performances.